- WASHINGTON: A new analysis blames North Korea or its sympathizers for the cyberattack against South Korean government and banking websites earlier this year.
- And it says the attack was likely linked to the 2009 massive computer-based attack that brought down US government Internet sites.
A study by computer security software maker McAfee Inc.
concludes that the attack that targeted more than two dozen sites in South Korea was a type of reconnaissance mission to see how quickly the government detected the problem and recovered from it.
The McAfee report says clues in the code suggest that the attack was probably engineered by North Korea or its sympathizers. The report is scheduled to be released Tuesday.